It's not really the bungs from the drug companies you should worry about - it's when they take a 'Shipman' from the local undertaker that you should be wary
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Local GP.. what to make of this..
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Posted 3 months ago #
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Absolutely no financial incentive for a GP prescribe (unless they own the pharmacy). Quite the opposite in fact - no financial incentive to not prescribe but lots of hassle if you prescribe more / more expensive drugs than your colleagues.
This +1
So I think the GP was being a twit.
Sometimes I will give one prescription for the thing which is definitely needed, and a separate one for the plan B drug which can be taken to a pharmacy on a separate occasion if necessary. This means they only have to get/pay a prescription charge for one item, but don't have to come back if they decide they need the other one.Posted 3 months ago # -
The Code of Practice that pharmaceutical companies follow is extremely strict and getting progressively more so each year. If you're really interested, you can read it all here http://pmcpa.org.uk/?q=getcopiesofcode for yourself.
Rachel
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How do you explain their eagerness to prescribe anti-depressants then?
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lazinesss - plain and simple laziness...
EDIT - sorry but I know quite a lot of people in need of help that instead get anti-depressants. I know they have their place but they should rarely be used instead of active help. (rant over)
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Did I really hear a man in my GP surgery asking for Gluten-free, part baked bread buns to be added to his script?
Genuine question by the way!
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Yes - you can get gluten-free products on prescription. Had relative that did it.
Rachel
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<continued offtopicism> I get my gluten free flour on prescription. Could get more but the logistics are awkward. It's not medicine but it prevents illness (in the short term, messy illness, in the long term osteoperosis, malnutrition and cancer)
Mind you I've never had a part-baked bun that wasn't manky so he should probably reconsider his order.
As for this GP... What are the odds that he'd already written up the prescription and just didn't want to redo it?
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jota180 - Member
It's not really the bungs from the drug companies you should worry about - it's when they take a 'Shipman' from the local undertaker that you should be wary
I've been given a quid by the undertakers a few tmes
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allthegear - Member
Yes - you can get gluten-free products on prescription. Had relative that did it.
<continued offtopicism> I get my gluten free flour on prescription. Could get more but the logistics are awkward. It's not medicine but it prevents illness (in the short term, messy illness, in the long term osteoperosis, malnutrition and cancer
I'd have thought the prescription price would make it not worth while, or does it not work that way? Would a pack of buns not be cheaper in ASDA, or is there a difference in their Gluten Free stuff?
Sorry for <continued offtopicism>
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That all depends on whether you are paying for your prescription.
Personally, I get though quite a lot of drugs so I have a prescription pre-pay card so try to get even OTC products on prescription where possible. Makes sense.
Rachel
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Gluten free stuff's pretty damn expensive tbh, and not always available- you can easily go into even a big supermarket and find them cleaned out of bread, frinstance. He'll probably bundle up a few items into a single order too, and if he's ordering freqently (short shelf life stuff) he'll be using a prepay certificate most likely.
I get free prescriptions anyway as it happens but it'd still be worth it. Then, my order is 10 kilos of flour
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Most doctors are overworked and the last thing they need is your dumb arse coming back for a sickness note or painkiller the following day when they could have dealt with it the previous consultation.
If you don't trust him and think he's getting a cut then go somewhere else. He won't give a shit.
I know I wouldn't.Posted 3 months ago # -
generally it's nearly impossible to 'go somewhere else'.
My current GP is useless. My previous GP was brilliant. Sadly, she's 40 miles away...
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I get the feeling that most patients expect to walk out clutching a prescription. So those who might be happy to know what's wrong, it isn't serious, who to talk to, or whatever tend to get allocated something by a sort of reflex action.
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I'd have thought the prescription price would make it not worth while, or does it not work that way? Would a pack of buns not be cheaper in ASDA, or is there a difference in their Gluten Free stuff?
This was in the news a while back when some muppet journalist misinterpreted the cost of prescribing gluten free products and wrote a story about how a £1.30 loaf from tesco was costing the tax payer £34 or summint like that.
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Spin - Member
This was in the news a while back when some muppet journalist misinterpreted the cost of prescribing gluten free products and wrote a story about how a £1.30 loaf from tesco was costing the tax payer £34 or summint like that.
There was a big noise a while back, tory Darren Millar decided to misinterpret welsh government costs, taking the cost for bulk-packs to be the cost for single packs. As ever the corrections were smaller than the story.
Oxfordshire has withdrawn GF food from prescription, to "save taxpayers money". The cost saving per patient per year is £60. The cost to the patients is many times that. Taxpayers end up paying more not less.
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[quote]I was prescribed dicolfenic and co-codamol for a back injury because the pain was causing spasms which were undoing the healing.[quote]
I used to be precribed these,but dicolfenic now no longer used in Hwyl tha area trust "wales" as poss heart impliccations.
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I have a problem with my knee, caused by using the heavy clutch in diesel vans when I used to do a lot of miles. Driving a lot aggrivates it.
I once went to a doctor about it and explained that when I drove a car/van it got worse and when I rode my motorbike, it cleared up.As best as I can recall his exact words were:
"You shouldn't ride a motorbike, they are dangerous. You should go and get an automatic car, Mercedes are quite cheap secondhand"
He never even asked me to roll my trouser leg up, and I never went back there again.
In the end another GP at another practice referred me for some physio which helped.Posted 3 months ago #
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